re: #33 Political Atheist

Here’s an example of soft denial. Pielke used this reference in his Congressional testimony:

Similarly, long-term trends (1925-2003) of hydrologic droughts based on model derived soil moisture and runoff show that droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U.S. over the last century (Andreadis and Lettenmaier, 2006).

Here’s the very next sentence, which he buried in the footnotes, because it doesn’t support the ‘shorter, less frequent’ story:

The main exception is the Southwest and parts of the interior of the West, where increased temperature has led to rising drought trends (Groisman et al., 2004; Andreadis and Lettenmaier, 2006).